I laughed hardest at the wild arm-waving secret distress signal. It just tickled the hell outta me.
Plus bonus points for use of the word 'mosey'.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Scrappy - Oct 17, 2004 7:03:16 pm PDT #4613 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Aims - Oct 17, 2004 7:49:53 pm PDT #4614 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Saw Man on Fire tonight. Pretty good. I forgot I love Tony Scott.
Jim - Oct 18, 2004 12:10:29 am PDT #4615 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
I think it's perfectly understandable - indeed it's a cliche - for the star of a show to get a bit edgy when the actress playing gawky best friend shifts gear and threatens to overtake her.
Jon B. - Oct 18, 2004 2:59:41 am PDT #4616 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
TA:WP?
SPtM:BLaU?
tommyrot - Oct 18, 2004 3:06:41 am PDT #4617 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Team America: World Police and South Park the Movie: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.
Jon B. - Oct 18, 2004 3:12:38 am PDT #4618 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Ahh. Thanks.
Steph L. - Oct 18, 2004 4:51:18 am PDT #4619 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I liked Tom Arnold in True Lies, and I laughed for about 5 minutes at the scene of the terrorist leader ranting and raging for the video camera, and then the battery dies. The timing in that scene was just perfect.
But on the whole, it's an appallingly sexist repugnant movie.
Lyra Jane - Oct 18, 2004 5:03:37 am PDT #4620 of 10001
Up with the sun
Team America sounded like it might be funny at first, but now I've read more about the movie's sense of humor, and I suspect it would just piss me off.
Look, people who shape their political views solely by listening to Janeane Garofalo or Sean Penn are idiots, I won't argue that. But the problem is that those people are idiots, not that performers who have the spare time, money and fame to make their views known go around talking about politics. I mean, no one gets mad at their neighbor the accountant for participating in a pro-choice rally, but Susan Sarandon does the same thing, only with much higher visibility, and it's ridiculous? I don't get it.
If I'm completely understanding the main joke in Team America, please let me know, 'cause it sounds like it would be funny if I wouldn't spend the entire movie arguing with the screen.
Jessica - Oct 18, 2004 5:03:44 am PDT #4621 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The "panthers" in TA:WP were so. damn. cute.
Nora Deirdre - Oct 18, 2004 5:03:47 am PDT #4622 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Saw Napoleon Dynamite this weekend - I'd heard that it was overrated, so I went in with pretty low expectations. I actually really enjoyed it. The narrative structure was pretty loose, I didn't know when the movie was wrapping up till I got a music cue, the story was pretty limp, but I really loved the characters, especially Napoleon's friends Pedro and Deb.
So, not a "great" movie, but I enjoyed myself the approximately hour and a half I was in there watching it.
Also, I was really convinced that La Fonda was a man, until she spoke - it may have been because Kip was so tiny in comparison.
And, WTF? regarding Uncle Rico's happy ending. I liked his ending getting the crap beat out of him. I was annoyed by that.